Guidelines for archiving data used in @BIotropica articles

Authors of papers submitted and accepted after January 1, 2016 must archive the data used in the paper in a permanent repository as spelled out in our data archiving policy. For guidance on how to prepare your data for archiving at the Dryad Digital Repository or other repositories we suggest the following resources.

Data can be submitted in any non-proprietary format. Files in .csv and .txt format are preferred.

GUIDELINES ON THE BEST FORMAT FOR YOUR DATA AND METADATA, including how to format dates, numbers, null values, column headings, etc. These are excellent, straightforward introductions and we request that you submit data following these guidelines.